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Summary: Creamy Goodness
Review: 120 pages of rich colorful vibrant jump-off-the-page mouth-watering ice cream. Also including, but not limited to traditional sherbets, shakes and sorbet. Contains all the reliable recipes you'll ever need with simple step-by-step directions (complete with inventive options to please anyone's individual taste buds). From the standards like chocolate and mint chip, to peach and vanilla with all kinds of incredible mix-ins. Got a slightly "off" batch of cookies - throw it in your homemade ice cream and see what happens. This book proves that you don't have to be a pro to make some good old fashioned ice cream... make any dessert occasion just a little bit sweeter. Williams-Sonoma has a great collection of cook books (Breads, Salads, Pastas, Desserts, Soups, Vegatable, etc) - all are equally impressive with wonderful photography and easy instructions. A beautiful book.
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Summary: For photography, 10. For recipes, 2. Not the best book!
Review: I bought a Krups ice cream machine two summers ago at Williams Sonoma along with The Ultimate Ice Cream Book by Bruce Weinstein. This year, I purchased this book in the Williams Sonoma series and it's just not as complete as Weinstein's book. Williams Sonoma did a wonderful job on the photography and Ms Goodbody's recipes are fine, but for my money, The Ultimate Ice Cream Book has this one beat.
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Summary: Perfect Ice Cream
Review: I bought an electric ice cream maker by GE at the store and had nothing but disasterous experiences with the recipes that came with it. In an attempt to try to get some use out of my investment I bought this book. Unlike the standard ice cream books it has many fruit recipes . My favorite, the one for blueberry ice cream, is always a hit because it has such an intense flavor and vibrant color.I also especially like the fact that the book includes a recipe for peppermint ice cream since that recipe has been hard for me to find. Overall the recipes work very well, the pictures are beautiful, and the instructions are easy to read. There is quite a selection of recipes in terms of time too. Many of the quick recipes do not involve egg (they involve milk and half&half instead) so they are faster than the others without the potential risk of tasting like scrambled egg if you do them wrong.
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